The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 84
By sunrise they were all out of the house, for they had far to go.
Who acts: food · What happens: be, have, go · To what, where: house
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (food), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 sunrise | case |
| 2 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 house | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 house | cop |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 house | advmod |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 had | case |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 house | acl:relcl |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 had | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 far | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 house | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | food | the house | sunrise | all property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | have | past | food | the house not said here | far property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient | |||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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